Jed Riffe

Jed Riffe is an award winning filmmaker and founder of Jed Riffe Films + Electronic Media. For over 25 years his documentary films have focused on social issues including: Native American histories and struggles (Ishi, the Last Yahi, California's "Lost" Tribes, Who Owns the Past?,) and agriculture, food and sustainability issues (Ripe for Change, Germ Wars). He currently lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area.[1]

Biography

Riffe was born in Dallas, Texas and attended El Centro College in Dallas University where he studied journalism. In 1968, he published The Good Life magazine and soon became politically involved in the civil rights and anti-war movements in Texas.

He organized demonstrations as part of the national Vietnam Moratorium Committee campaign, and was hired as the Texas organizer for Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam. It was then that he began showing documentary films as a tool for social change. His filmmaking is an extension of his early activism.

His most acclaimed film, Ishi, the Last Yahi was released theatrically and broadcast nationally on the PBS series The American Experience. The film went on to win "Best Documentary" awards at eight major national and international film festivals and was nominated for an a national Emmy award in 1994.[2]

Riffe served as series and exzecutive producer on California and the American Dream, an independently produced national series was featured on PBS.

Riffe’s other major credits include interactive producer and video director of the first Africana Interactive Studies Center at Merritt College; interactive producer/writer for four interactive exhibits for the Autry Museum of American History; interactive producer and writer for the award-winning “Public Broadcasting In Public Places.” Riffe and his team designed, programmed, built and installed four innovative, interactive media kiosks with 160 minutes of specially edited interactive content from the “California and the American Dream” series. Riffe wrote, produced and directed “TV of Tomorrow,” an interactive prototype demonstrating the possible ways interactive content might appear on television in the future. In 1990, Riffe produced 86 minutes of video for three interactive History Information Stations, at the Oakland Museum of California.

Riffe also consults on film and video distribution [3]

Filmography

Awards and recognition

Waiting to Inhale: Marijuana, Medicine and the Law

Ripe for Change

California's "Lost" Tribes

Who Owns the Past?

Ishi, the Last Yahi

References

  1. ↑ http://www.jedriffefilms.com
  2. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0726453/
  3. ↑ http://www.moviemaker.com/producing/article/jed_riffes_advice_for_aspiring_documentarians_20080404/

External links

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